Deadline Eve, Film First: Tyler Guyton Spends Monday on Cowboys Hour Breaking Down the Win That Kept the Season Alive
While the front office worked the phones — quietly, by its own account — the Cowboys' left tackle worked the tape of Sunday's 27-23 win in Indianapolis, the result that has Dallas 4-5 and still holding the NFC's tenth seed.
FRISCO — The Cowboys spent the eve of the NFL trade deadline in two rooms at once. In one, the front office weighed whether to add depth for the season's second half. In the other, starting left tackle Tyler Guyton sat down for Cowboys Hour on Monday and reviewed the film of Sunday's 27-23 road win over the Indianapolis Colts, walking through the offense's execution in the game that may have saved Dallas's season.
The stakes of that tape are plain in the standings. The win moved the Cowboys to 4-5 through nine games, snapped the slump that had been swallowing their autumn, and kept the club in the tenth seed in the NFC — close enough to the playoff line that Sunday's visit from the 7-1 San Francisco 49ers reads as an opportunity instead of an autopsy. Guyton's appearance, reported by Wire Report from the team's own channels Monday evening, was a review of how the line and the offense functioned in a four-point road win the Cowboys had to have.
The deadline context around the film session is the rest of Monday's story at The Star. Stephen Jones told 105.3 The Fan earlier in the day that it was 'pretty quiet on our front,' with no calls coming in on Dallas players, and head coach Brian Schottenheimer said he is 'very comfortable with our team.' The one roster note that did move Monday was medical: running back Tyler Goodson's knee injury, announced the same day, which is expected to cost the RB2 time. The deadline itself arrives Tuesday at 3 p.m. Central.
Which makes Guyton's Monday the honest picture of where the Cowboys are: the help, if any is coming, was still undecided at dinnertime, and the players already in the building spent the day studying the version of themselves that just won in Indianapolis. Whatever the front office does by Tuesday afternoon, the next test is already on the schedule — San Francisco, Sunday, at AT&T Stadium.
